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I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.
You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.
Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?
To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.
I want the people of Franklin County to know how much I care about them.
I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.
My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.
Hey, I'm like Aretha Franklin, I don't get no R -S -P -E -C -T around here!
She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.
We are very proud of the diverse talents within the Franklin Mint's own walls.
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.
Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
I love Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, and The Supremes, because I'm kind of old-school at heart.
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
I was fortunate enough to meet Aretha Franklin but I was so overwhelmed that I just burst out crying.
One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.
I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
I naturally gravitated first to R&B and pop: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle.
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.
I've tried to stalk Danzig. I've walked by his house on Franklin that looks super haunted and scary, but I've never seen him.
When Aretha Franklin came on the radio when I was in college, we would stop the car, throw open the doors, jump out, and dance.
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
I can't sing like Aretha Franklin as much as I wish I could. And I don't sing like Etta James and the Judds as much as I wish I could.
Aretha Franklin holds a significant place in the collective heart of America. She's a singular example of what we represent at our best.
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.